Devonian period

Devonian period

a geological period lasting from about 415 to 370 million years ago. Many freshwater fish existed during this period and plants became established on land. True seed plants evolved and lycopods reached the size of trees. Amphibians evolved, the first known insects, spiders and mites occurred and most graptolites became extinct. Britain still lay south of the equator with the Thames at 10 °S. See GEOLOGICAL TIME.

Washington, June 4 ( ANI ): Researchers from the University of Valencia and the Natural History Museum of Berlin have studied the fossilised remains of scales and bones found in Teruel and the south of Zaragoza, concluding that they belong to a new fish species called Machaeracanthus goujeti that lived in that area of the peninsula during the Devonian period.

When Sugimoto began photographing undersea dioramas of the Devonian period (350 million years ago), it occurred to him that the trilobites, squids, and sea lilies had all been re-imagined from their fossils.

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